Quotes About Deception

who wryly observed that no one would believe there was a plot against an emperor until he was found dead?

All too often, even the most glamorous rebels are just as unappealing, under the surface, as the imperialist tyrants themselves.

They create desolation and call it peace' is

Get thee glass eyes And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

A bad person is a bad person, and a bad person will never make you a good deal. The world is filled with enough good and honest people that doing business with the dishonest ones is pure foolishness.

People who told the truth didn't have trouble with details. Liars sometimes did.

The more complex the strategy, the less truth there is in it.

Why couldn't people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets like dirty laundry stuffed under a bed, and then dying, so the grieving got whammed with two losses—the flesh-and-blood bodies and the images they thought they knew.

Too nice was a thief, robbing bits of your life out from underneath you, one experience at a time.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

I can't fall in love with anyone, I make men believe what they want to believe.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.